Ě mother registers her daughter into kindergarten.the mother cannot read…and therefore needs help to fill out the forms…wrenching but at the same time I admire the mother’s courage and stamina in doing everything she possibly can for her child.
This beautiful 20th Anniversary Edition features a new introduction by the author, and is a wonderful companion piece to Jones’s masterful novel and his second acclaimed collection of stories, All Aunt Hagar’s Children.moreĪ Goodreads friend’s review enticed me to put this on my TBR list and so I ordered it (the 20th anniversary edition because it has an introduction by the author) and read it in two days. Lost in the City received the Pen/Hemingway Award for Best First Fiction and was a National Book Award Finalist.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and numerous other honors for his novel The Known World, Jones made his literary debut with these powerful tales of ordinary people who live in the shadows in this metropolis of great monuments and rich history. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and numerous other honors for his novel The Known World, Jones made his literary debut with A magnificent collection of short fiction focusing on the lives of African-American men and women in Washington, D.C., Lost in the City is the book that first brought author Edward P. A magnificent collection of short fiction focusing on the lives of African-American men and women in Washington, D.C., Lost in the City is the book that first brought author Edward P.